Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the crow's-nest came a shout: "Small boat dead ahead...
...toughest spots in U.S. education is the city of Hamtramck,* Mich. Hamtramck is a nest of factories, beer parlors and brothels entirely surrounded by Detroit. Hamtramckers were prominent among 400-odd Wayne County public servants indicted in recent years for assorted civic crimes. In two decades four Hamtramck mayors, one local State Senator and pecks of small political potatoes have gone to prison on liquor, vice and graft counts. When one mayor left jail, his constituents re-elected him, promoted him to be an isolationist Congressman...
Forester's ship is the 5,000-ton light cruiser Artemis. Her job: with the help of four other light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, to escort a convoy to Malta. In the Artemis' crow's nest Ordinary Seaman Quimsby, his padded perch whirling "in prodigious circles against the sky," sees a faint wreath of smoke on the Mediterranean skyline and in a few minutes, "climbing over . . . the curve of the world," come six enemy cruisers, vanguard of an Italian force of battleships and destroyers...
They are the steps toward a federation that Europe is incapable of taking "with out outside pressure and help." The German Menace. "Europe is a nest of small nations." Hence to the 80% of Europeans who are not Germans, freedom from fear means freedom from aggression by Germany. This obstacle to unity FORTUNE proposes to liquidate by placing Germany under an international administration for as long as is necessary...
...State College, in effect plucks down the sky's low temperature and focuses it on the thermometer. How it works: the polished aluminum surface of a small cone surrounding the thermometer radiates its heat to the sky but is protected from the ground heat by the nest of twelve larger cones with air insulation between them. The innermost cone thus cools to sky temperature, and the thermometer with it. Temperatures as low as -20° F. have been recorded even in North Carolina...